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http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2008/01/02/lklv.hostin.music.chetry.cnn
Think the music industry has gone nuts.
airborne_artist
3rd Jan 2008, 08:30
Assuming this is correct, how could it be policed?
Background Noise
3rd Jan 2008, 09:45
I thought that this had always been the case. Back in the days when we copied albums to the, then, ever-so-portable cassette tape it was technically illegal. We have always assumed that we could copy for personal use but we couldn't. In fact, wasn't the change going to be to actually legalise it? BBC News 2006 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5053658.stm)
BEagle
3rd Jan 2008, 10:16
Taping one's own vinyl records and playing the tape in the car always seemed reasonable to me. But many people taped their friends' LPs and that, of course, meant that the music industry lost out.
Similarly with CDs. Transfer your own CDs to an iTunes store on your own PC would seem reasonable - but the unscrupulous could equally copy everything to a portable drive and sell it on.....
The greed of a few will always result in heavy-handed copyright protection becoming necessary.
Yoof of today simply won't pay 6/8 for a single 3 minute track!
Background Noise
3rd Jan 2008, 10:29
Agree totally - but what seems reasonable isn't always what permitted. I bet we lend/borrow books from each other - that can't be right I suppose.
airborne_artist
3rd Jan 2008, 10:51
I bet we lend/borrow books from each other - that can't be right I suppose.
Legit, so long as the mate does not copy the content, as would lending a CD to a mate, so long as all they do is listen to it.
frostbite
3rd Jan 2008, 11:43
You only have to look at the extortion carried out by the Performing Rights Society to see what a racket it is.
I'm sure if they could devise some way of extracting a fee for every time we played our legitimately purchased media, they would do it.
Suing your customers is always a great business strategy: just ask SCO (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/sco_shares_down/). Here's what the Motley Fool (investment site) thinks of the RIAA's antics: link (http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/01/02/were-all-thieves-to-the-riaa.aspx).